My flag is always flying. My shingle is always out. I'm always looking for movie ideas. The hardest part of this whole movie-making endeavor is finding ideas. That's the real goal.
I've always approached screenplays and so forth with, "How would it really happen?" Not "What's the movie version?" but "What's the real-life version… - Alexander Payne
I've always approached screenplays and so forth with, "How would it really happen?" Not "What's the movie version?" but "What's the real-life version…
- Alexander Payne
I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script. - Alexander Payne
I think a badly crafted, great idea for a new film with a ton of spelling mistakes is just 100 times better than a well-crafted stale script.
What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head. - Alexander Payne
What science-fiction premises do is it gives you a "what-if" prism to look at the contemporary world with a wack on the side of the head.
A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs. - Alexander Payne
A pitfall of making a comedy with a studio-and it's also an American cultural thing-is that I get tired of being encouraged to go always for laughs.
There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made. - Alexander Payne
There is an audience out there for literate films - slower, more observant, more human films, and they deserve to be made.
If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie. - Alexander Payne
If you have your movies so that everyone understands everything, I think that's probably not a very good movie.
I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly. - Alexander Payne
I think cynicism lasts. Sentimentality ages, dates quickly.
The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true. - Alexander Payne
The biggest fear I have is to die with regrets, and of course that will come true.
I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor. - Alexander Payne
I like actors who, when you see them on screen, you sense a person, not just an actor.
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